The Frontier Fishing Grounds Improvement Project is an initiative unique around the world, taking as its focus the important fishery resources in the EEZ which require protective measures, and, while maintaining coordination with existing fishery resource management initiatives, improving ocean areas’ basic production capacity and creating new areas for the protection and cultivation of marine resources. Two types of fishing ground improvements are now being carried out, protection and cultivation reefs and mound reefs, and their effectiveness is being evaluated.
Selected Papers No.26

While balancing sustainable use of the ocean with economic activity is an urgent matter for achieving SDG14 and for international society, acquiring the funding necessary for marine environmental conservation remains a challenge. As a result, Blue Finance has in recent years drawn attention as a capital procurement means for a sustainable ocean. In this article, we would like to introduce and examine the prospects of Blue Finance as a new concept for realizing a sustainable ocean economy (blue economy).

Although towering skyscrapers dominate the capital’s skyline, did you know that Tokyo also includes islands still rich in nature? Metropolitan Tokyo also includes what are called the “Tokyo Islands,” consisting of 11 inhabited islands from the Izu Islands to the Ogasawara Islands. In this article, I would like to introduce Tokyo’s easily accessible island-hopping tour.